Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Jan 31 2008 | Filed under: Election 2008, Feature Article
I’ve noted before, based on instinct that, when it comes to substance, nothing distinguishes Obama and Clinton from each other, in that they’re each extremely liberal. That, I said, is why they’ve had to fall back so frantically on their racial and sexual identities. It’s not just the “identity politics” chickens coming home to roost; [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Jan 31 2008 | Filed under: Feature Article, Military
First, the NY Times announced that American troops were crazed killers. Next, it announced that they were crazed homeless people. The latest salvo the media has launched at the troops to counteract the Surge’s success is that they’re so crazy they are killing themselves in droves:
As many as 121 Army soldiers committed suicide in 2007, [...]
Big Dog at Big Dog's Weblog on Jan 31 2008 | Filed under: Election 2008, Feature Article
This is from the CNN website:
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, winner of the Iowa caucuses, hoped to position himself well among evangelicals and other conservatives to turn around several consecutive losses since Iowa. Long-shot candidate Ron Paul, a representative from Texas, also participated in the debate.
Is it fair to say that Ron Paul, of Mike [...]
MKFreeberg at House of Eratosthenes on Jan 31 2008 | Filed under: Activism, Election 2008, Feature Article
Via Kathryn Jean Lopez, via Neo-Neocon, an item that begs to be parodied, but cannot be…since parody demands an assessment of the level of absurdity in the real thing, followed by a nudging-up by a couple notches. Said notches being simply unavailable.
This comes from NOW’s N.Y. chapter and just has to [...]
Terry Trippany on Jan 30 2008 | Filed under: Election 2008
[McCain] said: “I think everybody knows the consequences. Haven’t met the benchmarks? Obviously, then, we’re not able to complete the mission. Then you have to examine your options.” This statement prompted Barack Obama to say “I called for that . . . several weeks ago. I’m glad that John McCain agrees with me.”
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Jan 30 2008 | Filed under: Election 2008, Feature Article
Compared to Romney, I don’t like McCain. Compared to Obama or Hillary, I adore McCain and would happily vote for him — heck, if I were voting in Chicago (home turf for both Obama and Hillary), I’d vote for him twice, and have my ancestors vote for him too. You dance with them whut brung [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Jan 30 2008 | Filed under: Election 2008, Feature Article
I don’t think it’s very useful, but this new website — Select 2008 — is a rather fun way to while away time, examine political issues and see from issue to issue where your candidates stand. Actually, that’s unfair of me. It may be useful to people who aren’t up on the issues [...]
MKFreeberg at House of Eratosthenes on Jan 30 2008 | Filed under: Election 2008
John Edwards is out of the race.
Last week I categorized all the candidates running as rock stars, wafflers and true believers. That is our new political divide, I argued, because the candidates weren’t running on platforms anymore — instead, they were selling us things, and the disagreement that separated them had to do with what [...]
Jodi at Webloggin on Jan 29 2008 | Filed under: Election 2008
McCain took over half of Florida’s Hispanic vote. I did the math, at 11% of the voting public that amounts to 196,043 voters. Tha translates to 103,904 votes at the time of this writing. The difference in the McCain vote total and Romney totals is only 89,056. One can only conclude that McCain’s pandering to this crowd paid off and may have in fact made up the difference in Florida. Again, McCain overwhelmingly won the vote of those who favor amnesty. A key factor? You decide.
Jodi at Webloggin on Jan 29 2008 | Filed under: Feature Article, Iraq
It looks like the surge had a positive impact; that is if the housing boom in Baghdad is any indication. Apparently people are returning to Baghdad because violence has gone done and Baghdad is now being viewed as a safe place to live.
The LA Times reports:
Soaring prices. Precious few homes. Bidding wars. Sound like [...]
